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Figure 4. Drawings of the reconstructed assemblage based on the ventral and dorsal specimens. The upper one represents the dorsal view of the assemblage and the lower represents the ventral view. The rostral and caudal sides mean that these are nearer head and tail ends of a conodont body, respectively.
Sweet (1970b) described that an ‘anterior’ process of the LE element “projected laterally and upward” (Sweet, 1970b, p. 233). This element is homologous with the Pl element of Ellisonia
teicherti?, which was described by von Bitter (1972), and the A2 element of Ozarkodina minuta (Ellison, 1941) (=Hindeodus minutus) of Baesemann (1973). The Pl element is characterized
